The National Pain Report recently released the results of its fibromyalgia survey examining treatment effectiveness and other questions. Almost 1,500 people participated. (Please note that the percentages in this table are different from those in the National Pain...
Jarred Younger was lured away from Stanford by a University that wanted to get a lead in an emerging field. By definition emerging fields are not quite there yet…they’re emerging. Picking a winner in the medical field sweepstakes may be a bit like backing...
Into the Big Leagues Low dose naltrexone (LDN) is able to do for some people with intractable pain what opioids and other drugs can’t do – reduce the pain. Those drugs have something LDN doesn’t, however, – FDA approval. You can’t prove that LDN works,...
The microglia surround and protect the neurons in our brains and spinal cord. As the main immune defenders in the brain, they spew out an array of inflammatory and neurotoxic substances when activated. When we have a cold these substances cause the symptoms associated...
Maija Haavisto is a Finish writer and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patient who wrote the massive ME/CFS and FM compendium “Reviving the Broken Marionette: Treatments for CFS/ME and Fibromyalgia”. Maija’s health improved greatly with low dose...